Moody's age

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 19850

Kelley wrote:

>  Was it ever noted 
in 
> GoF how old Moody appeared to be?  There's just no way I can see him 
> in his thirties in this book... 

GF 13: "the aged ex-Auror" (that's Rita Skeeter talking, so take with 
a grain of salt"

"He's an old friend of Dumbledore's," which admittedly doesn't tell us 
much about his age, and he's retired.  Charlie says "I heard he's been 
getting really paranoid in his old age."  (GF 11)

He also has gray hair (GF 12).

JKR could still have toyed with the idea of making Davey Gudgeon the 
DADA prof. and only later decided that the prof. should be an old 
friend of Dumbledore's.

Just to nitpick:  Davey Gudgeon =could= be as much as 6 years older 
than Lupin.  All we know is that their time at school overlapped.  But 
he's definitely not an old man.

Amy Z